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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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Climate and Conflict
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Burke, Marshall; Hsiang, Solomon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an explosion of research on both topics in the past decade, with a particularly large body of research emerging at their intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969392
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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969398
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession
Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Food Stamp spending, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social … the Great Recession. We do so using an alternative measure of poverty that incorporates taxes and in-kind transfers. We … disadvantaged. In the post-welfare reform world, TANF did not respond in the Great Recession and extreme poverty is more cyclical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969436
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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides
Ajzenman, Nicolás; Galiani, Sebastian; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the … order to reverse the increase in drug-related crime is not high. We estimate it to be approximately 0.1%of Mexico's GDP. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969454
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Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students
Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S.; Lavecchia, Adam M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student, daily tutoring, group activities, career counseling, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950743
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Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
Heller, Sara; Pollack, Harold A.; Ander, Roseanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States, although identifying successful interventions for adolescents - particularly males - has proven challenging. This paper reports results from a large randomized controlled trial of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950747
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Family Food Insecurity
Noonan, Kelly; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Theory suggests that adverse life events--such as unemployment or health shocks--can result in food insecurity, which has increased substantially in the U.S. over the past decade alongside the obesity epidemic. We test this proposition by estimating the effects of a specific and salient mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950921
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Do In-Work Tax Credits Serve as a Safety Net?
Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Kuka, Elira - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The cash and near cash safety net in the U.S. has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past fifteen years. Federal welfare reform has led to the "elimination of welfare as we know it" and several tax reforms have substantially increased the role of "in-work"' assistance. In 2010, we spent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950982